Mint Debian doesn't seem to like my Realtek RTL8187 wireless much. It works, but not particularly well, as I get frequent packet loss. ndiswrapper doesn't do much for me either. I don't think LM9 had this problem, but I can't remember for certain. I really need to wire up my house with some Ethernet cables. It's just not easy navigating through my roof...

As the release is already a DVD, in the future, it would be cool if all versions were on 1 DVD. So we could have 2 DVDs, maybe a 32bit and a 64bit, with all versions of DE and WM (GNOME,KDE, etc). Just throwing it out there.

randomizer wrote:I just added ttf-mscorefonts-installer and modified my ~/.fonts.conf and the fonts look about the same as they do on any Linux Mint 9 edition. Granted, the fonts are not as clean as they are in Windows, but they never have been. If there's one thing Windows excels at, it's font rendering.

That's what I did. Just installed mscorefonts, no other tweaking in that regard, and it all looks really good. I use to do the same thing in older versions of Ubuntu and other distros with dodgy fonts.

I've also changed the default menu (which is nice but not my favourite) and went for the customised menu with Applications Places System as the menu items. I added a top panel and put it there with my most commonly used programs; just like in Lucid.

Mint Debian is very nice. I've had one 'no signal' message on the monitor during boot but the system just shut down after thirty seconds and rebooted fine with no errors. Think it might be the 2.6.32.5 kernel not fully supporting my newish Core i3 and H55-USB3 motherboard. This monitor issue occurs in Lucid, Fedora 13 and Mint Debian but not PCLOS or W7 on the same hardware. I think PCLOS uses a newer kernel.

randomizer wrote:Kernel 2.6.33 was the first to have full support for the i3, including the IGP. 2.6.32 may have some support for the CPU but I think IGP support is flaky at best.

Hey, thanks for that. That may explain why in the newer kernel in PCLOS, the no signal message on the monitor doesn't happen. In Lucid when I get the no signal message I have to do Ctrl-Alt F1 and in Fedora and LMDE it just shuts down after a few seconds. I bought this system though knowing that it may not be fully supported for six months or more, so I can't blame Linux for that decision. It only happens once or twice a month anyway.

I do like Linux Mint Debian quite a bit so far, it seems really good and to basically have Debian with a bit more polish is an attractive option. My gut feeling is LMDE will go far. I will certainly promote it on a large aussie forum if it continues along so well.

Thanks to everyone that has worked so hard in producing it and all Mint flavours. Its been two years since I've looked at Mint and I am impressed indeed.

randomizer wrote:Kernel 2.6.33 was the first to have full support for the i3, including the IGP. 2.6.32 may have some support for the CPU but I think IGP support is flaky at best.

So, would the 2.6.33 kernel be around any time soon on LMDE? I am happy to wait.

You can easily install 2.6.35 from experimental or from the Liquorix repository.For the Debian kernel from experimental, just add a line to your /etc/apt/sources list exactly like the one you have for "testing" but with "experimental" in its place.Then open Synaptic, reload the package information and install the 2.6.35 kernel. There's no problem since your current kernel won't be removed. Also you can leave the experimental repo enabled since packages from there can only be installed if you explicitly request.

If you prefer to install a Liquorix kernel, which is tweaked for desktop use rather than for server use, add to /etc/apt/sources.list

randomizer wrote:Kernel 2.6.33 was the first to have full support for the i3, including the IGP. 2.6.32 may have some support for the CPU but I think IGP support is flaky at best.

So, would the 2.6.33 kernel be around any time soon on LMDE? I am happy to wait.

You can easily install 2.6.35 from experimental or from the Liquorix repository.For the Debian kernel from experimental, just add a line to your /etc/apt/sources list exactly like the one you have for "testing" but with "experimental" in its place.Then open Synaptic, reload the package information and install the 2.6.35 kernel. There's no problem since your current kernel won't be removed. Also you can leave the experimental repo enabled since packages from there can only be installed if you explicitly request.

If you prefer to install a Liquorix kernel, which is tweaked for desktop use rather than for server use, add to /etc/apt/sources.list

I think so. But I think the Ubuntu kernels are also tweaked for desktop use. In your case you could perhaps install Maverick Meerkat's kernel too, but then its repository would have to be disabled so as to not affect the other installed packages.